This document discusses teaching English intonation. It defines intonation as the variation in volume and pitch over a sentence. There are three main intonation patterns: rise-fall, fall-rise, and flat. The rise-fall pattern indicates the speaker has finished, fall-rise can show surprise, disagreement or a need for response, and flat intonation means the speaker doesn't have much to say. Techniques for teaching intonation include using nonsense words, gestures, songs, and marking intonation patterns on a board with arrows.

1. Teach English
Intonation
Prepared by Mohamed Ramadan

2. :General Overview
* Phonology is the whole sound system of a particular
language. It deals mainly with the pronunciation of individual
sounds, intonation and stress.
* These aspects should be taught in context to encourage
students to communicate and understand what is being
said.
* A teacher can indicate to those features to highlight them
when students examine other aspects like form and
meaning.

3. Intonation
* It is the variation in volume and pitch in a whole sentence.
It is important in language functions and expressing
emotions or feelings.
* There are three patterns of intonation. They are as
follows:

4. : rise/fall intonation. 1
* the pitch rises first then fall right down at the end of the
sentence.
* it indicates that the speaker finished what he wants to say
and nothing more to be said.

5. :fall/rise intonation. 2
* the pitch is low at first then it rises at the end of the
sentence.
* it indicates one of the following:
a. surprise or disagreement.
b. the speaker wants the person to whom he speaks to
respond or confirm.
c. the speaker hasn't finished yet what he has to say.

6. :flat intonation. 3
* the pitch is in the same level along the whole sentence.
* it indicates one of the following:
a. the speaker doesn't really have much to say.
b. the speaker doesn't want to communicate.

7. Techniques for indicating
to intonation:

8. :Using nonsense words. 1

Ask students to utter nonsense sentence to convey a certain
attitude or feeling ( e.g. pride, indifference, anger, boredom, …..
etc ) and get them speak with expressions.

Then repeat the exercise with real sentence.

At last show them how to utter the sentence with the suitable
intonation according to each attitude or feeling. Talk about
different patterns.

9. Using gestures. 2

Use your hand either up or down in order to indicate the
general direction whether the sentence starts with a high or
low pitch. Ask students to imitate you when saying each
sentence and the sentences of their own. Talk about different
patterns while using your hand.

10. :Using songs. 3

By singing some sentences or verses you can refer to
intonation without the need of producing every single
word.

11. :Using the board. 4

Make marks on the board using arrows up or down on
sentences to show the direction of the intonation.